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I think they were taken from V2s, though their history could be varied. I read somewhere they were taken from scrap line V2s at Swindon, but I've no idea how accurate this might be, the number of times people have but 2 and 2 together and ended up at 5 based on what they assume....

Despite being reliable they were non-standard and the work they were designed for was all but dead anyway, so they were sold into industries that just so happened to be on the decline or disposing of their internal rail networks about the same time as rail preservation had a boom in the late 70s...

Pretty standard these days. Apparently it means there's usually nowhere to hang yourself either.....

Original 5484 which it had until 1948.

Yeah, 66606 is on Avonmouth, and 7A80 was 66618 & 59004.

Minor derailment involving buffer lock at Peak Forest.

It's tender did though.

They look like Gresleys so would be before. Some buffets survived into the mid 70s, long enough to receive blue/grey.

It's a shame there was so much antipathy towards the newer locos towards the end of the steam era otherwise we'd no doubt have more photos of the unusually old locos next to the new ones. If they're together at all, one, or sometimes the other, is merely just visible in the background.

43357 & 43013.

I must have just been unlucky, I remember doing at least two Merseyrail 142s, and seeing them on other occasions. I was just doing it as far as Batley though. I remember it going from one of the low bays, 3 or 5 when it was headed out before the announcement finished, suspect that wasn't normal...

In Northern Spirit days there was a Leeds - Lincoln via Huddersfield all stations that was regularly a Merseyrail 142! A 'mere' 102 miles but with seats that belonged in a primary school, and leg room to match, and much of the journey on jointed track, it must have been a nightmare. It wouldn't...

According to the application the plan is to restore the original lantern to an modified design, removed around nationalisation (probably to allow smoke to escape easier), along with strengthening works. DOCUMENT NR15A: HUDDERSFIELD STATION DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT The use of DB V200 locos...

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It's just a reflection of it's low priority, as a piece of electrification on it's own it's practically useless, it's only useful as part of the big picture, so there was absolutely no rush about it. When you don't need to be fast you can do the work simply when you've the opportunity, not only...

Unless St Pancras is rebuilt again, then no. The platforms are short and can only take 2x5 5 car 222s, or 2x5 car 810s, which are a specially built 24m version of the standard Hitachi AT300 unit in order to fit in St Pancras.

The bit between Ravensthorpe and the canal is former (recent) landfill so will likely all need work to make sure it's suitable for building on, plus I think it's getting a feeder station, while that closer to Ravensthorpe is on an embankment, one of the main reasons I was surprised by the...

Signal failure on the down at Heeley.

Yes, 66308

Sounds accurate to me ;):lol: